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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and … of Willa Cather’s birth; the goal was to have the first stamps offered for sale in Red Cloud on December 7, … Day of Issue stamps. Ten Red Cloud organizations and almost fifty volunteers from eleven Nebraska towns helped the …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

Guided Seasonal Tour

… Guided Seasonal Tour Ántonia's Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the … of sharing a good book. For residents of the Great Plains,  My Ántonia embodies the NEA’s "Where We Live" theme. The … from Bohemia (the Czech Republic today) in 1880. While  My Ántonia takes place in the late 19th Century, its themes …
Posted: 08/23/2024
Last Updated: 01/03/2025

Cather Sesquicentennial

… The National Endowment for the Humanities Big Read of My Ántonia : September 1, 2024-June 30, 2025 — Programs and … p.m. ET • Readings by actors Mary Stuart Masterson and Jeremy Davison, with musical performances by Hailey McAvoy …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!

… Depot is on several guided tours, including our new My Ántonia tour. Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter … Coordinator, at npowers@willacather.org . PLAN YOUR TRIP   My Ántonia Holiday Tour Festive Sites from a beloved novel … interiors and locations in Cather's beloved novel, My Ántonia . Several sites will be decorated for the season …
Posted: 11/13/2024
Last Updated: 11/17/2024

NEA Big Read: My Ántonia

… Image Image NEA Big Read: My Ántonia Programs Offered to Communities and Organizations September 4, 2024 Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the … in. Because of Willa Cather’s intensity of observation, My Ántonia remains a revelation.”  — Pulitzer Prize winner …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/29/2024

Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… Image The Willa Cather Childhood Home in her restored glory (April … Image Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting Program | June 8, 2024 Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting A … 2024 It was a beautiful, breezy afternoon on June 8 for our Willa Cather Childhood Home Rededication and Ribbon Cutting! …
Posted: 06/13/2024
Last Updated: 06/15/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… The site closed on August 15, 2022 to facilitate the first comprehensive restoration in more than fifty years.  A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

The Potter Family

… Street business district. Later J.Q. and Jacob opened the first grist mill west of Beatrice after they constructed, … War was on now and my father volunteered and spent three years in the service until the close of the war. He was … Orleans; N. F. Potter, Alma; twenty-six grandchildren, fifty great grandchildren.” (By Attorney Jas. S. Gilham) …
Posted: 08/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/27/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… in American fiction—with Melville, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Ellison, Bellow, Morrison.” Yes, though Cather deserves to precede Hemingway on this list. Concluding her fine study of Willa … Cather. On April 24, 1947, Cather died from cancer. A private funeral was held in New York, and a memorial service …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway

… one of America’s greatest novelists. The site closed on August 15, 2022 to facilitate the first comprehensive … of the Cather family. A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa Cather Childhood Home was Cather’s residence … may also be made online . For more information, please contact Executive Director, Ashley Olson, at …
Posted: 09/26/2022
Last Updated: 11/29/2023

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